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The Dershow

Should Iran's Scientists be Fair Game?

The Dershow

Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media

News, Politics

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Is the targeted assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists the right thing to do?

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0:00.0

The leading nuclear scientist in Iran, the man responsible for trying to create a nuclear arsenal for Iran,

0:09.0

which has already said it would try to use it against the big Satan and the little Satan, the big Satan being America, the little Satan being Israel.

0:16.0

This scientist was neutralized. He was killed by an intelligence agency. Was that right?

0:23.7

Was that wrong?

0:25.1

Is it more or less justified

0:28.4

than the killing of Osama bin Laden?

0:30.8

Well, John Brennan, the former head of the CIA, has said, no, no, the killing of

0:34.4

bin Laden was fine, even though it was a revenge killing for the past actions,

0:38.0

but the killing of the Iranian scientist was criminal. And Bernie Sanders called it murder.

0:45.0

Is that just partisan bickering or is there any rationalization for those distinctions?

0:51.0

You will hear why the killing of this scientist was more justified

0:56.0

than the killing of Osama bin Laden on the Dershope.

1:01.6

Change a pace today from focusing on the American presidential election and the lawsuits.

1:09.0

We're moving to Iran today and talking about targeted killings, but you know it all comes back to

1:17.9

American politics, believe it or not, even that issue has become a source of partisan divide.

1:27.0

Let's begin at the beginning.

1:30.0

Just the other day, services maybe Israeli maybe American maybe

1:36.3

Israeli together with American maybe Israeli alone targeted and killed a father of the Iranian nuclear bomb program.

1:48.0

His name is Mohsen-Fakrazadi, and he is a physicist but he's also a member of the Revolutionary Guard

1:57.6

he holds a military position he is a combatant and his job was to help the Iranians develop a deliverable nuclear arsenal capable

2:10.5

of wiping Israel off the map and let's there be any doubt about it. The former

2:17.5

president of Iran, the more moderate president, Raffin Johnny, said that if Iran

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